Ventilated furniture



Fl 0. WHITE. VEN'I'ILATED FURNITURE, APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1920.

Patented Mar. 22, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK 0. WHITE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VENTILATED FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 22, 1921.

Application filed August 10, 1920. Serial No. 402,680.

To all'who'm it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK 0. WHITE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to fabricate a seat and back for furniture which will be aerated, prevent the adhering of the users clothing to the back of chairs, lounges, etc, in warm weather. A further object is to make the seat and seat element selectively detachable and to make the back and back element selectively detachable.-

Tn the conventional seat, the user in hot weather, due to perspiration, becomes very uncomfortable, particularly where he is compelled to remain in one seat for a considerable length of time. An automobile driver, particularly where the limits of his bodily movements are small and where he drives for hours continually, becomes very uncomfortable in hot weather, owing to the lack of air circulation in and around the seat and back.

My purpose is accomplished by providing an air space immediately under the seat and back whereby the air can pass, as well as a perforated member, as cane or leather by which the air may pass from the air space to the person of the user.

Since it is necessary to upholster or cover the seat element and back element entirely in order to prevent the chafing of the seat and back on which my device is used, it is desirable to have these elements detachably secured to the seat and back of my device.

With the above and other objects in view, my iiwention has relation to certain novel features of construction and operation, examples of which are described in the following specifications and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-- lfigure l is a plan of the seat element of my device.

Fig. 2 is a fraginental sectional elevation of my seat and back taken along the line E22 of Fig. 1.

r 1g. is an enlarged Iragmental sectional elevation of a portion of Fig. 2 showing the attachable means between the seat element and the seat.

Fig. 4: is a front elevation of my seat element looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. l.

Numeral designates the seat element having the upward curled lateral edges 6 bent shown in Fig. 4.

Numeral 7 designates a slot in element 5. A key hole slot 9 is cut in the tongue 8. The seat element is covered with cloth 10: the screw 11 is secured by frictional engagement to the seat 12 shown at 13 having its head ll held in spaced relationship with the lower surface of the seat 12.

Numeral 15 designates the cane portion of the seat, 16 a leaf spring secured to the seat element 5 by means of the rivet 17. This structure is duplicated in each one of the interlocking means. In order to position the seat in s mood relationship with the seat element and to lock it in that position the screw heads i l positioned in the enlarged portion of the key hole slots 9 are pushed into the channel portion of the key hole slots 9. The springs 16 are of such length that when the screws 11 arrive at the end of the slots 9, they take the position shown in Fig. 8 thereby preventing disassociation of the seat and seat element. In order to re move the seat element it is only necessary to compress the springs 16 and reverse the recited operations Numeral 17 designates a back element and 18 a back which are similarly detachably secured to each other in spaced relationship.

Numeral 19 designates the spring which secures the seat element to the back element.

lVhat I claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is:

In ventilated furniture a seat element having slots cut therein and tongues stzunped and bent therefrom, said tongues having key hole slots formed therein, a seat, a screw, said screw secured in frictional engagement in said seat so as to position the head of said screw in spaced relationship with the lower surface of said seat so that said tongue by means of its key hole slot may be detachably secured to said screw, a spring, said spring secured to said base plate so as to lock said screw in the key hole slot of said tongue in certain relative positions of said screw and said tongue.

In testimony whereof I aflii: my signature.

FRANK O. W'HITE. 

